17 Park Avenue

Address: Park Avenue, 17, Hockley, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 5ND

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Telephone: 01215233712

Latest Rating awarded on 12/01/2010 :   Poor

Brief description

17 Park Avenue is a care home for up to 22 adults that are experiencing mental ill health. The home is situated close to local amenities such as shops, places of worship and public transport links.
 
There are six shared bedrooms and ten single bedrooms, none of which have en suite facilities.

There is one large combined lounge/diner on the ground floor and a rehabilitation kitchen has recently been installed for the use of the people living in the home. The home has a passenger lift and there is ramped access to the front of the building. Some adaptations have been made to bathrooms to enable people with a physical disability to shower and bathe.

 
Information is shared with people who live at the home during house meetings and there are leaflets describing how to make complaints available in the entrance hall. Many of the people living in the home do not speak English as a first language. The staff team have the skills collectively to communicate with people in their first languages.

 
The range of fees charged for living at the home was not detailed in the service user guide.

This brief description is an overview of the service and may have been updated since the latest inspection report was published.

Latest inspection report

View latest inspection report 08/04/2010 (PDF in a new window)

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Service details

Type of establishment: Care Home

Type of service(s): Care home only

Total capacity: 22 places

Type(s) of care (with number of places): mental health, excluding learning disability or dementia (22 places)

Ownership/management details

Provider type: Private

Registration date: 14/4/1994

Provider(s): Park Avenue Limited

Other Details

Care Quality Commission helpline: 03000 616161

enquiries@cqc.org.uk

Council: Birmingham